Nobuaki Date

“Ukulele-sation: a Building Conservation Project started in April, 2000 by Nobuaki Date in order to conserve a personal memories related to the architecture which are going to be abandoned. In the project, the materials imbued with the life of the house are extracted and remade into a ukulele by the artist. Responding to the social transcendences in an individual level, labour of love offered by the artist transforms ukulele, a musical instrument into a container of memories. The ukulele is always returned to the owner of the house. Since the launch of the project, 62 ukuleles in total have been created.